Yes, drawing is a skill that can be learned not just as talent you need to be born with.
Here are some resources for anyone looking to start learning how to draw.
If I can do it so can you!
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Essential materials
YouTube videos
This is a great drawing course for complete begginers! Takes you through all the basics from drawing lines & shapes, to shading & drawing details.
Free Online Drawing Course - Lillian Gray
Proko gives so many great advice for drawing through these videos, there preview for his paid course but you can learn a lot just by watching these on their own!
Drawing Basics | Proko
Another great how to draw playlist teaching you how to draw parts of the face.
Learn To Draw | Tutorials
Complete list of videos teaching you how to draw realistically. These are great for learning how to draw details & make your artwork stand out.
Realistic Drawing Tutorials
Drawing facial features is an important part especially if you want to draw better portraits. The steps are explained in an easy way to follow along.
How to Draw Facial Features | Proko
As someone who struggled a lot with shading, this lists helped me get better at it. Teaches you the basics & the eight techniques to shade drawings.
How to Shade a Drawing
If you're looking to draw bodies & poses learning anatomy is so important.
This video explains it in an easy & fun way so that you don't get bored & you can draw any pose you want easily.
How to draw basic anatomy
Another great drawing for beginners series that shows you how to draw using easy techniques that's easy to implement & it's fun to watch with the animations that's going on!
The Learning To Draw Series
Jess shares the best excercies to improve your drawing skills. I do these at work when I'm free or when I'm just sitting & have nothing to do & they're really helpful to improve your drawing skills!
12 Drawing Exercises to Improve Your Art Skills! Warm-Up Practice
This video shows you how to practice drawing the scentific way. It's always great to know things that's backed by science because it shows it's actually real advice and legit.
The Scientific Way to Improve your Art FAST! - How to Practice and Remember Efficiently
Books
Drawing portraits wasn't always so easy but this book definitely helped with learning the essentials & how to get the right proportions.
How to Draw Faces and Portraits for Beginners
Perfect book for absolute beginners!
The essential art fundamentals in this book can help transform your potential into reality.
Your inner artist and creativity is begging to be unleashed!
Drawing for Beginners: 19 Simple Tutorials
Perfect book for people starting their creative journey. It shows that not all ideas are original, & how we can use that to our advantage.
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Creative Tips
Keep Going gives lots of timeless, practical, and ethical principles & advice for anyone trying to sustain a meaningful and productive creative life.
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative
This book shows you how to promote your work,It’s not self-promotion, it’s self-discovery―let others into your process, then let them get inspired by your work.
Would definitely recommend it to any artist who wants to know more about the mindset to ...
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Creativity
Essential materials
The perfect kit for begginer artists! This includes all the essential materials to start your drawing journey, including pencils, erasers, sharpener, & a sketchbook, all for an affordable price & such high quality.